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Author Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990.

Title Prosody and purpose in the English renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Contexts: ch. 1. Prosody and purpose -- ch. 2. Ars metrica -- ch. 3. Rude and beggerly ryming: the romance tradition -- ch. 4. A question of language: Italy and the shaping of Renaissance prosodic theory -- ch. 5. Notes of instruction -- pt. 2. Performances: ch. 6. A strange metre worthy to be embraced -- ch. 7. Jasper Heywood's fourteeners -- ch. 8. Gorboduc and dramatic blank verse -- ch. 9. Heroic experiments -- ch. 10. Speech and verse in later Elizabethan drama -- ch. 11. True musical delight
Analysis Poetry in English, 1558-1702 - Critical studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Versification
Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism
Verse drama, English -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Classical influences
Renaissance -- England
Classicism -- England
Literary form.
Classicism.
English language -- Early modern -- Versification.
English poetry -- Classical influences.
English poetry -- Early modern.
Epic poetry, English.
Literary form.
Renaissance.
Verse drama, English.
England.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 88022598
ISBN 9781421430508
1421430509
1421430886
9781421430881
9781421430515
1421430517